Kargil is a metropolis in Kargil district and the joint capital of the union territory of Ladakh. It is placed 204 km to the east of Srinagar and 234 km west of Leh to the east. Kargil is the center of the Suru River valley, traditionally regarded as Purig.
The name Kargil is stated to derive from the words Khar, which means castle, and rKil which means "center". It seems to be a becoming description for an area this is equidistant from Srinagar, Leh and Skardu (the capitals of the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and Baltistan respectively).
Historically, the location round Kargil changed into referred to as Purig. A predominant examine of the records of Purig is covered withinside the 1987 book Qadeem Ladakh by Kacho Sikander Khan, which incorporates genealogies of diverse dynasties that dominated the location.
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